Australian share price movements

7000
ASX & SFE merger

John Howard
Prime Minister
Commonwealth
Bank privatised

5000
Formation of the
Australian Stock
Exchange

End of Soviet
Union and Cold
War

Paul Keating
Prime Minister

Compulsory
superannuation
introduced

Fringe Benefits
Tax introduced

George H.W.
Bush US
President

Bill Clinton
Qantas
US President privatised

ASX trading
floors close,
replaced by
computerised
trading

3000

2000

GST
introduced

Collapse of
HIH, Onetel
and Ansett
Airlines

Nelson
Mandela
South African
President

Signature of North
American Free Trade
Agreement between
US, Canada and Mexico

Major recession
Berlin Wall falls

OCT 1982
First CDs sold
NOV 1982
Michael
Jackson
Thriller album
MAR 1983
First hand-held
mobile, Motorola
DynaTAC 8000x
released

SEP 1983
Australias
win in the
Americas Cup

1983

1984

1985

APR 1986
Crocodile
Dundee
movie

JAN 1984
First Apple
Macintosh
released

1986

1987

JAN 1988
Australia
celebrates its
bicentenary

APR-OCT 1988
World Expo 88
held in Brisbane

APR 1984
Advance Australia
Fair becomes
national anthem
MAY 1984
One dollar coin
introduced
in Australia

1988

MAY 1986
Australian
population
reaches 16M

1989

1990

1991

1992

FEB 1990
Nelson
Mandela
freed

1993

NOV 1990
Tim Berners-Lee
invents World
Wide Web (WWW)

 AY 1988
M
New Parliament
House opens
inCanberra

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

SEP 1995
DVD invented

JAN 1992
First Big Day Out
music festival
held in Sydney

SEP
1998
Google
founded

SEP 1995
eBay
founded

NOV 1992
Smartphone
invented

JUL 1999
Dolly the
sheep, first
cloned
mammal

1999

NOV 1999
Australia
wins Rugby
World Cup

SEP 1992

Mars Observer
launched into
space by NASA

JUN 1997
Harry Potter and
the Philosophers
Stone published

SEP 2000
Sydney Olympic
Games

Arab
Spring
protests

European
debt crisis

Julia Gillard
Prime Minister

Euro
introduced

Australian dollar
drops below 50US
cents for the first
time

Severe recession
Interest rates peak

1982

Global Financial
Crisis

Dot Com bubble bursts

Technology stock prices
plunge

Oil prices
record low
US$17

Asian
financial
crisis

European Union
established
Black Monday
Sharemarket crash

Free trade
agreement
signed
with China

SARS virus
hits Beijing

Gulf War

Bob Hawke
Prime Minister

Invasion
of Iraq

Telstra
privatised

$A floated

1000

$42bn National Building

Economic Stimulus Plan

Hurricane
Katrina

Capital Gains
Tax introduced
Financial sector
deregulation

Malcolm Turnbull
Prime Minister

Record iron
ore/coal prices

Hong Kong
returned to
Chinese
rule from
UK rule

Dow Jones
closes above
5,000 for the
first time

Kevin Rudd
Prime Minister

Barack Obama
US President

George W. Bush
US President

ASX
demutualises and
becomes a listed
company

4000

Oil prices record

high US$145

Boxing Day
tsunami

6000

Tony Abbott
Prime Minister

Kevin Rudd
Prime Minister

Greek
Government
debt crisis

9/11
attacks
on US

2000 2001

2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

FEB 2002
SEP 2001
Lleyton Hewitt
wins US Open

NOV 2005

Australias
first Winter
Olympic
Games
gold medal

Makybe
Diva wins
record third
Melbourne
Cup

FEB 2004

FACEBOOK
founded

 CT 2001
O
First Apple iPod
goes on sale

MAY 2004

Mary Donaldson
marries Crown
Prince Frederik
AUG 2004 
Ian Thorpe becomes
Australias greatest
Olympian

NOV 2007
Mick Fanning
wins his first
surf title

2010

2011

2012

MAY 2010
Jessica Watson,
youngest person
to sail around
the world

APR 2013
Australian
population
reaches 23M

APR 2011

This chart is comprised of quarter end index levels for the ASX All Ordinaries Share Price Index chart. The All Ordinaries index (All Ordinaries or All Ords) consists of the 500 largest eligible companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. Size is calculated by market
capitalisation (current share price X number of shares on issue). This chart shows the All Ordinaries Share Price Index which does not take into account dividends. For a chart that looks at performance when dividends are reinvested you should use the All Ordinaries
Accumulation Index. The index was established in 1980 with a base of 500. S&P DOW JONES INDICES is the owner and operator of the S&P/ASX index series, including the All Ordinaries. For more information about the S&P DOW JONES INDICES Australian index series visit
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2014

2015

DEC 2015
Katy Perry
#1 in Twitter
with 77m
followers

Royal wedding of
Prince William and
Kate Middleton

FEB 2008
Apology to
the Stolen
Generation


DEC 2007
Australia
signs Kyoto
Protocol
on climate
change

2013

SEP 2008
Hunger Games
published

JUN-JUL 2014
Soccer World
Cup Brazil
JUL 2011
NASAs final
spaceshuttle
mission

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